[Mrs. Don-o]

Have you any factual foundation for your supposition that Wells cherry-picked data or illegitimately extrapolated conclusions?

Kinsey's methods were scientifically disgraceful and have been thoroughly debunked. I'm sure you've seen Judith Reisman's takedown of his methodology.

From what's in this article, Wells is just noting statistically significant correlations from a survey of 13,000 people whose participation was not influenced by suggestion, recruitment, reward, or pressure on Wells' part. Absent evidence that this researcher, Elisabeth Wells, is a Kinseyesque fraud, your conclusion lacks much persuasive force.

[Ben Mugged]

Abstract Sexual orientation consists of multiple components. This study investigated both sexual identity and same-sex sexual behavior. Data came from the New Zealand Mental Health Survey, a nationally representative community sample of New Zealanders aged 16 years or older, interviewed face-to-face (N = 12,992, 48% male). The response rate was 73.3%. Self-reported sexual identity was 98.0% heterosexual, 0.6% bisexual, 0.8% homosexual, 0.3% “Something else,” and 0.1% “Not sure.” Same-sex sexual behavior with a partner was more common: 3.2% reported same-sex sexual experience only and 1.9% reported both experience and a relationship. For analysis of childhood and lifecourse, five sexuality groups were investigated: homosexual, bisexual, and heterosexual divided into those with no same-sex sexual experience, experience only, and experience and relationship. The non-exclusively heterosexual groups were more likely to have experienced adverse events in childhood. Educational achievement and current equivalized household income did not differ systematically across the sexuality groups. Only 9.4% of the exclusively heterosexual lived alone, compared with 16.7% of bisexuals and 19.0% of homosexuals. Heterosexuals were more likely than bisexuals or homosexuals to have ever married or had biological children, with differences more marked for males than for females. Heterosexuals with no same-sex sexual experience were more likely to be currently married than the other two heterosexual groups. Restricting comparisons to heterosexual, bisexual, and homosexual identification ignores the diversity within heterosexuals. Differences between the bisexual and homosexual groups were small compared with the differences between these groups and the exclusively heterosexual group, except for sex (80.8% of bisexuals were female).

There are a lot of generalizations in this abstract. I started to do the analysis for you but I have better things to do. Remember I don't have a dog in this fight and I win nothing by convincing even one person. Even if that person is me.